Emergent imagination: A developing framework for the analysis of artworks in virtual worlds. Issue 1 (1st June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Doyle, Denise
• Is Part Of: Metaverse creativity. Volume 4:Issue 1(2014)
• Page Start: 15
• Page End: 33
• Publication Date: 2014-06-01
• Subjects: Shared virtual environments -- Periodicals; Three-dimensional imaging -- Periodicals; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Periodicals; 006.8
• DOI: 10.1386/mvcr.4.1.15_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-3550

Abstract

This article proposes a framework for the analysis of artworks created in virtual worlds by extending Patrick Lichty's four modalities of art in virtual worlds, identified as transmediated, cybrid, client/browser and evergent. Following a review of artistic practices in Second Life a selection of artworks from the 'Kritical Work in SL' exhibitions are analysed for the qualities of imaginative experience and the articulation of a new set of movements of the imagination from (and between) physical and virtual world spaces that indicates a potency of virtual worlds for the investigation and creation of artistic practice.